Traci: I was using the red and the blue to symbolise Flame and Water...but no worries, you have the real eye color now!
Once again, these characters are from Susan Cooper, with the exception of Ector from The Mirror of Merlin. The Mirror of Erised belongs to J. K. Rowling, and Traci and Alana belong to themselves. Now read. ^_^
They stood in silence about the tree, unable to speak.
The only one left was the boy. As Will watched, the color in his
eyes drained, the metal dislodged and fell. And as the true eyes of the
boy's were shown it was all Will could do to keep from crying out loud
in surprise.
The boy's eyes were tawny, flecked with gold. They were the same
eyes as the Pendragon, Bran. They were the same eyes of the Huntsman.
The boy's stature faltered. He fell on the ground to his knees,
staring at the engravings on the metal. Suddenly he lost his similarity
of Will in their minds. It was strange; there he was, looking so much like
the Sign Seeker....but he was not, and the Six's minds could understand
this. It was the sight of the eyes, tawny around the edges and yet flinty
blue. The lighting made his hair look yellow- or was it the lighting? The
whole form of the boy seemed so surreal.
He regained his composure, and only then did he notice the Circle
of the Six. His eyes lingered over Bran-especially his sword, Eirias. Finally,
Merriman broke the blanketing silence.
"Who are you?"
It was so natural a question that it awoke everyone from their
stupor. The boy paused for a moment, as if pondering whether or not to
answer.
"They call me...Ector," he said, hesitantly. "But more importantly,
what has happened here? Has the High Magic called me for the purpose of
ill-will?" He kept running his hand through his now clearly yellowed hair,
as if incredibly nervous about something.
"You and the others have sent the Dark out of Time. By Pendragon's
sword the Dark has fallen!"
Ector gasped, and fell again to the ground. He raised up the
small metal piece that had been on his eye. "Erised.." he said aloud. "It's
brought me here again. Erised. The Mirror." He coughed weakly. "Maybe I
can trust you with who I really am."
"In a universe other then this, I was supposed to be King Arthur."
The boy spat out the name like he held a grudge. "Merlin, my mentor, was
trapped in his home by a cunning sorceress named Nimue. I escaped, but
there was no way I could live up to what I had to do. In my world, the
Light has failed.
"The Mirror....the Mirror was a passageway through time. But
it was so unpredictible- sometimes you could end up in a whole different
universe if you werent careful...if you werent concentrating properly...
but it fell into the hands of what you would call a necromancer. It only
showed to him the future, he never entered it- only saw that he would be
great. But he was obsessed with the vision he saw. So much so that his
death caused it to lose all it's time traveling powers...the Mirror now
only shows what the person WANTS to see in it. Mortals call it Erised."
Ector stood again, and his eyes suddenly blazed. The metal flew
to his face as the eye became red and the left blue. He talked again, in
quite a normal voice, to their surprise.
"Bran...Eirias.."
Bran unsheathed the sword. Ector walked over to it and placed
it into his hand. He smiled a cruelly bitter smile. "This is my destiny...before
me...my shattered life." He waved the sword around his head before yelling
what sounded like a war cry to those who did not know the meaning.
"Excalibur!"
The boy dropped the sword as if it pained him to remember the
blade Merlion found in a small bread shop. The blade from the Lost Land,
returned there and kept there by it's King. Ector began to fade, whispering...'Hisame
Ko Issun'....
"Flame can be a weapon..." stated Merriman grimly, "but also
a source of life. Water causes floods and rains....but it is essential
to every human being. Which eye of the Old and Wild Magic is the truth?
In the end, if the balance is not restored, every destiny is lost." And
Will understood.
About ten feet away, two girls were arguing. They no longer had
the glowing eyes-in fact, the one who had red now had a placid blue, and
the formally blue eyed girl's eyes were now green.
"Fire!"
"Water!"
"Red!"
"Blue!"
A/N: You like? I'm going to expand on it more. It has a lot to do with the balance of the elements, and appaerently everyone here is balanced enough, with the exception of the one-sided Wild Magic girls...but thats why they call it Wild, ne? Chapter 3 will be up..sometime. Meh.